Hosed
/həʊzd/ adj, verb
adj, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of hose form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Wearing hose. not-comparable
"Satins and silks and hoséd legs they shew; / Rich streams of cane-distilled nepenthe flow."
- 2 Ruined, messed up.
"“Weʼre having some internal communication issues. In fact, weʼre pretty hosed at the moment.”"
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More examples"I had a nice collection of Soviet magazines in Cyrillic, with prominent red colouring. They got waterlogged when firemen hosed the fire in my house in 1985."